Johann Strobl, the CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International, has said that the bank has enough capital to consider acquisitions and is interested in expanding in the Czech...
Emerging Europe Staff
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Television remains the dominant advertising media type in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, although digital, partly thanks to online videos, is catching up...
Salome Zurabishvili, a French-born former foreign minister, has been elected Georgia’s first female president. Mrs Zurabishvili comfortably beat rival Grigol Vashadze...
A new Eurobarometer survey ahead of next May’s European elections has revealed that a majority of EU citizens are worried that disinformation campaigns, data...
Belarus has announced plans to borrow up to two billion US dollars on foreign financial markets in order to refinance the state’s foreign debt. “During the period...
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko called for a declaration of martial law on November 26 following Russia’s illegal seizure of three Ukrainian navy...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. We start with the Guardian, which claims that a new...
The Czech Republic’s coalition government survived a vote of no-confidence on November 23 as the country’s opposition fell nine votes short of toppling the...
In a new report, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) assesses developments since the publication of...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has selected five banks (Raiffeisen, UniCredit, Banca Intesa, ProCredit and Komercialna Bank) to implement the European Union’s...
A new report from the international law firm CMS has revealed that despite well over 100 separate cyber incidents being recorded across 18 CEE countries last year, less...
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze met with the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and other high-level commissoners on November 21 in an...
